Improvement in wheelbarrows



N. C. SANFORD,

Wheelbarrow.

No 8,101. Patented June 6, 1865.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

N. C. SANFORD, OF MERIDEN, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN WHEELBARROWS.

Specification forming part of Iii-11ers Patent No. ISJOI, dated June 6,1855.

clear, and exact description of the same, when taken in connection withthe accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon,and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, andrepresent, in

Figure 1, a side view; Fig. 2, a top view, and in Fig. 3 a longitudinalvertical section.

Similar letters indicate corresponding parts.

My invention consists, first, in the construction of the frame ofwheelbarrows,whereby the weight of the frame is much reduced and at thesame time much stronger than the common construction; second, inconstructing a tilting bottom for discharging the load without tippingthe barrow over, as required in the use of common wheelbarrows.

To enable others to make and use my invention, I will proceed todescribe the same as illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

A A are the two side pieces of the frame, one end resting upon the axleB of the wheel C, the other end forming the handles D D. These sidepieces are usually made solid of sufficient strength to sustain the loadrequired to be carried, and are consequently heavy. I split the saidpieces, as seen in Fig. 1, bending the upper part to form a truss, a,secured at its foot in any convenient manner, supporting the lower partby a rod, d, from the truss.

* The sides E E and the back F may be of the usual form; but I make thesides fixed instead of movable, as in common barrows.

H is the bottom, constructed independent of any part of the frame, andhung near its center upon pivots c to the frame, so that it may beturned up, as in red, Fig. 3. When down, as in black, Fig. 3, it isfastened in any position the barrow may be loaded, and when it isdesired to discharge the load, release the bottom from its fastening atthe bar Land, by means of the handles f f, tilt the bottom, as

neath the barrow.

The many advantages of my improvement over the old movable sides are tooapparent to require enumeration.

I do not claim, broadly, a vehicle the bottom of which is constructed toswingby means of an independent movement of the body, as seen innumerous gravel-cars, also in the patent of Anthony Iske, July 12, 1859.Therefore,

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new and useful, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination of the trussed frame and tilting bottom, substantiallyas and for the purpose specified.

N. o. SANFORD.

Vitnesses:

ORVILLE H. PLATT, Burns SANFORD.

convenient manner to the cross-bar I, in which seen in red, Fig. 8, andthe load will drop be

